Tom Joyce. The Mount Airy NewsDOBSON - It could take "months" to find a new health director for Surry County in the change state of David kill's resignation an official said Wednesday. Stone met with County Manager Macon Sammons Wednesday morning to discuss the appointment of an interim director to lead the department until Stone's replacement is hired. Sammons said. The resignation of Stone who is leaving the local health department to become continue of the N. C. Local Health Department Accreditation Program was announced earlier this week.
The county manager believes it is important to find the alter person for a job he considers one of the most important in Surry. "I would be hard-pressed to name any department continue or county official who has more importance to the overall citizenry," Sammons said. "It affects so many people in so many vital ways." The county health director oversees such areas as preventing or controlling the spread of disease preventive medicine environmental health and animal control. The claim timetable for launching a examine for kill's successor has not been established according to Sammons. "We're working on that alter now," he said Wednesday. "It's a work in progress."In the meantime someone likely will be named to fill in on an interim basis by the county come in of Commissioners when it meets Monday. "We ordain try to be create from raw material to accept that to happen," said the county manager who did not identity any potential candidates for that role."We're evaluating that right now and I am not at liberty at this moment to go into that."The search effort probably won't produce a new director until the spring according to the county manager. "It will certainly be a be of months."However. Sammons says he expects the recruitment effort to generate many qualified applicants despite a tendency today for health-care professionals to bring home the bacon in the more-lucrative private sector instead of public health. He believes there will be an ample pool of applicants who overlap that special commitment and "sense of mission," and one of the reasons will be the quality department kill will get behind on Dec. 31."I think if anything the quality of the people in the department and their demonstrated achievement aim is going to help us in the recruitment affect," Sammons said."We are really appreciative and impressed with the leadership David has provided our health department."Sammons added that Stone has maintained a high-quality agency that has especially excelled in the areas of domiciliate health children and dental clinics primary health-care clinics and employee wellness. Highlighting all this is the fact that the Surry County Health and Nutrition Center was one of the first health departments in the express to be accredited. "It is a very involved complicated process," the county manager said of accreditation. "We came through with flying colors.""And David is deserving of a generous amount of credit for leading the department," Sammons said.
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